profit

Profit

Profit

A company's total revenue less its operating expenses, interest paid, depreciation, and taxes. For example, suppose a widget manufacturer earns $1,000,000 in total revenue. The widgets cost $200,000 to make and his administrative and payroll expenses total $250,000. He also must subtract $50,000 in depreciation on his widget manufacturing equipment and pay $200,000 in taxes. His net income is stated as: $1,000,000 - $200,000 - $250,000 - $50,000 - $200,000 = $300,000.

profit

Profit.

Profit, which is also called net income or earnings, is the money a business has left after it pays its operating expenses, taxes, and other current bills.

When you invest, profit is the amount you make when you sell an asset for a higher price than you paid for it. For example, if you buy a stock at $20 a share and sell it at $30 a share, your profit is $10 a share minus sales commission and capital gains tax if any.

average profit margins or profit per £1 of sales. If costs increase the profit margins will be squeezed; if competition forces selling prices downward margins will be similarly squeezed, and vice versa;

profit

the difference that arises when a firm's TOTAL REVENUE is greater than its TOTAL COSTS. This definition of‘economic profit’ differs from that used conventionally by businessmen (accountingprofit) in that accounting profit takes into account only explicit costs. Economic profit can be viewed in terms of:

the return accruing to enterprise owners (entrepreneurs) after the payment of all EXPLICIT COSTS (payments such as wages to outside factor-input suppliers) and all IMPLICIT COSTS (payments for the use of factor inputs - capital, labour - supplied by the owners themselves);

a residual return to the owner(s) of a firm (an individual ENTREPRENEUR or group of SHAREHOLDERS) for providing capital and for risk-bearing;

the ‘reward’ to entrepreneurs for organizing productive activity, for innovating new products, etc., and for risk taking;

the prime mover of a PRIVATE ENTERPRISE ECONOMY serving to allocate resources between competing end uses in line with consumer demands;

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